Meaning of NOUVEAU RICHE

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class [adj]  characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
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	Synonyms:		parvenu, parvenu, parvenue, pretentious, upstart, upstart(a)
	See Also:		climber, disagreeable person, junior, social climber, unpleasant person
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Nou`veau" riche"\, m., Nouvelle riche \Nou`velle"
Glossary
	Definition:		people with newly acquired wealth.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		adventurer, arriviste, Babbitt, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bourgeois gentilhomme, bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, epicier, fledgling, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, mushroom, name-dropper, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, newly-rich, nouveau roturier, novus homo, parvenu, peasant, Philistine, pig in clover, ribald, rising generation, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, social climber, sprout, status seeker, stripling, tufthunter, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, would-be gentleman, yokel, Young Turk